migoo@cs.mcgill.ca (Miguel ANJOS) (01/09/91)
First, thanks to everyone who answered my previous article. To anyone who may have been interested in the question I raised about two weeks ago, here are the most significant answers I obtained. Note I took the liberty of performing some editing to reduce the size of the posting, as I myself dislike huge articles :-) --------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Andrew Taylor <andrewt@cs.su.oz.au> There are or at least were two species of gastric brooding frog known. They both come from rainforest streams in coastal Queensland (Australia). The first became extinct only a couple of years after being discovered. I think the second still exists in very small numbers. A reference is: "Gastric Brooding Frog" edited by Michael Tyler Croom-Helm(1983). --------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Bill Venables <wvenable@spam.ua.oz.au> Dr. Michael J. Tyler of the Department of Zoology, The University of Adelaide, GPO Box 498, Adelaide, South Australia, 5001 was the main scientist responsible for the discovery of the gastro-incubating frogs (there are more than one species of them) and he has written a short booklet on them. I do not have the title but if you cannot locate it you could either look up his name in a Science Citations Index or write to him directly requesting information. Regards, Bill Venables. -- Bill Venables, Dept. of Statistics, | Email: venables@spam.adelaide.edu.au Univ. of Adelaide, South Australia. | Phone: +61 8 228 5412